Did Shia LaBeouf Scoop the NSA Whistleblower by Five Years? (Video)

Five years before former NSA contractor Edward Snowden would stun the world by divulging details of the U.S. government's computer surveillance program -- the menacingly dubbed PRISM -- another would-be whistleblower was spilling alleged secrets about Uncle Sam's Big Brother tendencies.

His name is Shia LaBeouf.

It was 2008, and the actor was starring at the time in Eagle Eye, a high-tech thriller in which he played a college dropout who, with the help of an anonymous female caller, hacks his way through multiple network systems in an attempt evade the FBI.

Appearing on The Tonight Show to promote the film, LaBeouf told host Jay Leno that a real FBI agent was on set as a consultant, and offered a chilling demonstration of the bureau's reach.

"He told me that one in five phone calls that you make are recorded and logged," LaBeouf said. "And I laughed at him and then he played back a phone conversation I'd had two years prior."

"It was one of those 'what are you wearing' type things," he recalled of the phone call. "It was mad weird."

Leno responded to the assertion with several "wows," then finally spit out, "That's pretty amazing."